Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Franz Grillparzer

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.
Franz Grillparzer

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
Franz Grillparzer

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
Franz Grillparzer

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
Franz Grillparzer

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
Franz Grillparzer

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
Franz Grillparzer

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
Franz Grillparzer